| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 452 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Chinese Research Perspectives ; v. 1
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Chinese Research Perspectives ; v. 1.
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| Summary |
This book was written and produced by China's first environmental non-profit organization, Friends of Nature. This edition of the book combines two years of reports on China's environment from the view of civil society. With a special focus on natural and unnatural disasters, the book also covers the themes of pollution and ecological protection, urban environmental issues and livability, sustainable consumption, policy and governance, civil society and public participation, and China and the world in an environmental perspective. In this volume, readers are brought up to date on the main environmental issues and events of 2010 and 2011. Beginning in 2010, debris flows, landslides, and droughts brought about considerable debate on the human factors involved in "natural disasters" and on China's urban growth mode. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; Volume Overview General Report; Environmental Degradation and the Water Crisis in Rural China: An Introduction; Part One Special Focus: Natural and Unnatural Disasters; Human Factors in Natural Disasters: Debris Flows, Droughts, and Floods; Severe Geological Disasters during the 2010 Rainy Season; Southwest China's Water Crisis: Rethinking the Urban Growth Mode ; ConocoPhillips Oil Spill and Eco-Disasters in the Bohai Bay; Questioning the Chromium Slag Pollution Incident in Qujing. |
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The Dalian PX Incident: On Institutional Safeguards for Integrated Decision-Making in Environmental ProtectionPart Two Environmental Pollution and Ecological Protection; The Environmental Degradation of the Yellow River; An Urgent Call for Solutions to China's Heavy Metal Health Risk ; Xiaonanhai: Elegy for a Nature Reserve in the New Round of River Development; Part Three Urban Environmental Issues and Livability; Livability: A New Way of Thinking about Urbanization in China; The Environmental Risks of Rapid Urbanization: Indicators for Livable Cities. |
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The Waste Crisis: Seeking a New Direction in the Dilemma2010: A Restless Year for Environmental Policies on Packaging; Resolving the "Garbage Siege" by Developing a Resource Reutilization Industry; How Can Cities Be Free From Urban Flooding?; Part Four Sustainable Consumption; An Overview of China's Unsustainable Consumption in 2010; A New Round of Luxury Water Consumption: Artificial Snow Parks ; Golf Courses in Beijing and Ostentatious Water Use; Investigation into the Pollution in Apple Inc.'s Supply Chain and a Call for Green Consumption; Part Five Policy and Governance. |
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Garbage Problems and Solutions in Rural ChinaChina's Environmental Law Fails to Effectively Ensure Fairness; Why Didn't the MEP Sue the Zijin Mining Group?; Environmental Information Disclosure Three Years after Implementation; The Struggling Environmental Courts and Environmental Public-Interest Litigation; Part Six Civil Society and Public Participation; NGOs Play a Positive Role in Handling Shanghai Richina Leather Pollution; Tiny Particle, Big Action: Public Participation in Environmental Management as Seen in the PM2.5 Case. |
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Number of "Green Citizens" Increase as Communities Participate in Social AffairsPart Seven China and the World in an Environmental Perspective; Transgressing Global and Local: Environmental NGOs and China's Overseas Investment; Improving China's Aid and Investment to Africa with a More Open Attitude ; Concerns for the Lancang-Mekong Lifeline; Part Eight Appendix; Annual Indexes: 2010 & 2011 Environmental Trends; Terminological Glossary ; Index Terms. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmental protection -- China.
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Environmental protection. |
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China. |
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Environmental policy -- China.
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Environmental policy. |
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Environmentalism -- China.
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Environmentalism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dongping, Yang.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Urban challenges, public participation, and natural disasters. Leiden : Brill, 2013 9789004249530 9004249532 |
| ISBN |
9789004249547 (electronic book) |
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9004249540 (electronic book) |
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9789004249530 |
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9004249532 |
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9004249540 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004249547 |
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